patrickk

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Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby(mislav.uniqpath.com)
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by patrickk 17y ago
You can have this one for free guys, I'd love to see it implemented: New Traffic Lights System. Initially this would work in tandem with the existing traffic lights grid system. In each car would be a display in the driver's field of vision
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by patrickk 17y ago
The thing is, iterating on the legislation may not be possible. If you are a smart, clued-in high tech founder who isn't completely in love with your initial vision, then it's possible to iterate from a potentially disastrous idea into some
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by patrickk 17y ago
You're welcome! Also, two more good links: http://lifehacker.com/5401954/programmer-101-teach-yourself-... http://lifehacker.com/5336113/how-to-build-a-web-site-from-s... These will apply to pretty much where you are at now, if you are
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by patrickk 17y ago
Not sure of your level of knowledge, but the LAMP stack is a good place to start. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle) For the scripting language, you won't go far wrong with Ruby on Rails (pleasure to use) instead of PHP (
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by patrickk 17y ago
Hacker News > Lists > Most Active Theads > "Ask HN: Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)" 187 Comments in 9 hours haha I guess everyone's favourite subject ultimately is themselves
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by patrickk 17y ago
I really like peepcode: peepcode.com I'm learning rails at the moment and I find it quite useful - especially from the very start of my immersion into the world of rails. You may get 'inspiration' from these guys ;-)
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by patrickk 17y ago
"Didn't get that round of financing? Don't tell me the VC's are idiots or didn't "get it." You didn't pitch it right. Or you went to them too early. Or too late. VC's fund companies every day - they didn't fund your company. That's your fau
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by patrickk 17y ago
there's a lot of words in this article without anything really noteworthy being said
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by patrickk 17y ago
I'd like to see Ubuntu taking a really radical approach and giving the user a choice of more non-traditional desktop options such as these custom desktops, courtesy of lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5043712/roll-your-own-lightning-at-su
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by patrickk 17y ago
Nice analogy. I think this is why Steve Blank talk so much about founders 'getting out of the building'. The first instinct of a highly intelligent tech nerd when faced with the challenges of a startup is to bury their head in code and not
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by patrickk 17y ago
By definition this bill would exclude YC type startups. The legislation doesn't reflect the downward cost of launching a startup because of things like open source software, falling rents due to economic climate, cheaper bandwidth, remote w
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by patrickk 17y ago
Another superb article from vanity fair. There was another one a week or so ago about a former sniper in Afghanistan. Reading this reminded me of when I read about Jeff Greene about a year ago - another guy who made a mint from the housing/